Kites - Romain Gary - book

For Ludo the narrator, the only love of his life began at the age of ten, in 1930, when he saw little Lila Bronicka, a Polish aristocrat spending her holidays with her parents, in the forest of his native Normandy. Since the death of his family, the young boy has been tutored by his uncle Ambroise Fleury, known as "the crazy postman" because he makes wonderful kites known throughout the world. Gifted with the exceptional "historical" memory of all his family, faithful to the values ​​of "compulsory public education," the little Norman will never forget Lila. He tries to make himself worthy of her, studies, suffers from jealousy because of the handsome German Hans von Schwede, becomes the secretary of Count Bronicki before the family leaves for Poland, where he joins them in June 1939, just before the outbreak of the Second World War which forces him to return to France. So the separation begins for the very young lovers... To get through the trials, to defend his country and human values, to find his love again, Ludo will always be supported by the image of the great kites, their symbol of audacity, poetry and freedom inscribed in the sky.